Saturday, February 28, 2015

"Though Netanyahu will of course focus, as he should, on the details of a
possible Iran agreement—the speech will be a moment that points beyond
the particulars of an Iran deal. It will be a moment that could cause us
to reflect on what kind of people we are, and, with new leadership,
what kind of deeds we might once again be capable of.

"As it will be a moment of vindication for Zionism, the cause to which he
and his family have dedicated their lives. In past episodes of Jews’
being consigned by the world to their fate, they were powerless to
fight. And so the world (and not a few Jews) became accustomed to Jews’
playing the role of victim. On March 3, something remarkable and
historic will happen. The prime minister of Israel, speaking on behalf
of not only his country and millions of Jews, but on behalf of the West
itself, will command the world’s attention as he declares his refusal to
appease the enemies of Israel and the West. Both Jabotinsky and
Churchill, both Ben-Gurion and Truman, would appreciate the moment."

I feel the same way. This is a momentous occasion, and it's about time people see what real leadership is like.

Husband, 108, wife, 105, celebrate 82 years married. "Jeanne Veillard sat quietly next to her husband, wearing a white
linen dress and a pair of pink slippers. They patted each other on the
hand. How did the happy couple meet? 'I found him in the street,' she joked in French Creole, making the room full of relatives laugh. Veillard starts his day at 5 a.m. and does five to seven pushups. For
breakfast, he has a cup of tea, oatmeal and fresh fruit. Lunch and
dinner consist of fish and fresh vegetables. The centenarians nap early
and often."

I grew up with "Star Trek" on TV, so I was sad to hear that Leonard Nimoy had died. Some of my favorite episodes included "The Trouble With Tribbles"; "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Edith Keeler); "All Our Yesterdays", with Mariette Hartley; "This Side of Paradise", where he fell in love with Jill Ireland; and "A Piece of the Action." Right? Check!(Graphic from the Virtual Jerusalem newsletter)

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the first World Trade Center bombing by Islamic terrorists. Not much has changed since then, except for the current president and Secretary of State, whose words and actions have emboldened a more savage breed of jihadists. Strange how people complained more about waterboarding than they have about beheading.

Here's a good quote from Alan Dershowitz on the shameful boycott of Netanyahu's speech, via Israel Hayom: "One should walk out on tyrants, bigots and radical
extremists, as the United States did when Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
denied the Holocaust and called for Israel's destruction at the United
Nations. To use such an extreme tactic against our closest ally, and the
Middle East's only vibrant democracy, is not only to insult Israel's
prime minister but to put Israel in a category in which it does not
belong."

He's right. But the awful Susan Rice is wrong, actually calling Netanyahu's speech "destructive"! She ought to look at the last 6 years -- that's destructive!

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

This is something I never imagined I'd see: "Rabbis from European countries
gathered in Prague Tuesday for training in self-defense and first aid in
response to a wave of attacks against Jews and a rise of anti-Semitism
on the continent. In a stunning
beginning of a training session, knives were distributed to dozens of
rabbis, young and old, before receiving instructions and practicing what
to do to survive stabbing and how to treat injuries."

That's how Boehner described Obama's veto of the Keystone Pipeline, but it also describes this president. Every day he does or says something that makes you wonder how it's possible that he's actually the president of this country.

They say that Obama is "desperate" to make a deal with Iran. It must be pretty bad if he is also desperate to stop Netanyahu from speaking about it.

ISIS has taken 90 Christians hostage. Each brutal action they take is a deliberate response to the spinelessness of this administration.

Now Obama is going to control the Internet. Everything he interferes with (health care, for example) is a disaster.

We have 2 more years of this, and the next President -- with any luck, a Republican -- will have the tough task of picking up the pieces.

Monday, February 23, 2015

David Horowitz is spotlighting antisemitism at American colleges in his new Jew Hatred on Campus campaign. Check out the website, here. I doubt the university antisemites and instigators will visit this site, but everyone else ought to.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

This is from WorldJewishDaily: "Martin Indyk, Obama's former adviser on the Middle East, has just said
that the White House is ready to cut Israel loose. Is anyone listening?"

Caroline Glick writes: "It is hard
to understand either Israel’s election or Obama’s hysterical response
to Netanyahu’s scheduled speech without recognizing that Obama clearly
feels threatened by the message he will deliver. Surrounded by
sycophantic aides and advisers, and until recently insulated from
criticism by a supportive media, while free to ignore Congress due to
his veto power, Obama has never had to seriously explain his policies
regarding Iran and Islamic terrorists more generally. He has never
endured a direct challenge to those policies.Today Obama
believes that he is in a to-the-death struggle with Netanyahu.If
Netanyahu’s speech is a success, Obama’s foreign policy will be
indefensible. If Obama is able to delegitimize Netanyahu ahead of his
arrival, and bring about his electoral defeat, then with a compliant
Israeli government, he will face no obstacles to his plan to appease
Iran and blame Islamic terrorism on the West for the remainder of his
tenure in office."

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Obama Plotting to Undermine Netanyahu’s Speech in Congress. "The president may schedule high-profile interviews while Netanyahu visits. Who, if anyone, will address AIPAC?"
WorldJewishDaily.com puts it more succinctly: Obama to AIPAC: Drop Dead!
If the public is allowed to attend these speeches, how about every Jewish citizen attending as a show of support? Otherwise, this will be yet another propaganda victory for our enemies.

Strange how Obama can't spare the time to meet with Netanyahu, but he did find time to meet with Abbas last March. Strange how Jews still voted for Obama and will continue to vote for Democrats despite this obvious antipathy.

When church officials talk like this, you know you have a widespread problem: "During the session entitled 'Hard Talk' the bishop told a Jewish speaker that the Holocaust 'should have taught you a lesson'." The only lesson I'm getting is that people are more ignorant and antisemitic than ever, and that even a supposed man of God isn't immune.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Read up on the week's news at Betsy's Page, Maggie's Farm, and Larwyn's Linx. And here's a headline you never thought you'd see: Norwegian Muslims will form a human shield around an Oslo synagogue. 'We think that after the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, it is the
perfect time for us Muslims to distance ourselves from the harassment of
Jews that is happening,' 17-year-old event organizer Hajrad Arshad said in an interview with Norwegian television. 'If someone wants to attack the synagogue, they need to step over us first," posted another of the event's organizers on Facebook.'" That's a sentiment I'd love to hear more often.

I bet Obama feels that the media is "hyping" these stories the way it hypes stories about Islamic terror.

Elder of Ziyon posts this op-ed on antisemitism -- from Deutsche Welle. "But Europe, and every single European, must stand united against rampant
anti-Semitism. Not just in demonstrations and other events, but in
everyday life. Do not stand idly by when your neighbor's life is
threatened, the Bible says. We shouldn't stay silent, but raise our voices in anger."

Friday, February 13, 2015

You have to read Caroline Glick's latest column, Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America, to feel vindicated in your opinion of Obama's smear campaign against Netanyahu, as well as his blatant anti-Jewish sentiment in general. He may as well just get it over with and announce his support for Jew-haters.

See? "First of all, if all goes as he hopes, the media and his party
members will use his demonization of Netanyahu’s character as a means to
dismiss the warnings that Netanyahu will clearly sound in his address. Second,
by boycotting Netanyahu and encouraging Democrats to do the same, Obama
is mainstreaming the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions
movement to isolate Israel."

"Obama on Chapel Hill murders: 'No one in the USA should ever be targeted because of…how they worship'." Really? When Jews are murdered it's a random killing, but when Muslims or blacks are murdered, it's racism even when there's no proof. Who's on his high horse now?--------------------------------------------------------------------You have to see this tweet from Ambassador John Bolton, as seen at The Right Scoop: "Why we're less secure today than we were 6 years ago, summed up in one GIF. #ThanksObamapic.twitter.com/1pDPSOk7ft"-------------------------------------------------------------------I like Michael Reagan's column Living in Obama World, as well as the accompanying cartoon. He writes, "According to his boasts, which the
mainstream media rarely challenge, the economy has rebounded from the
Great Recession and federal budget deficits have been sliced in half
under his watch.

Never mind that we're in the slowest economic recovery since FDR's awful policies prolonged the Great Depression.

Never
mind that the 'official' unemployment rate of 5.7 percent is a
statistical fraud because it doesn't count the millions who've dropped
out of the job market.

Never mind that the federal government
still spends $486 billion more every year than it takes in and future
deficits are projected to be a trillion bucks a year.

And never
mind that ObamaCare is a fiscal time bomb that's already driven up the
cost of health insurance for millions of individuals and small business
owners.

Pay no attention to all those grim realities at home, says our strange man in the Oval Office. All is well on Obama World.

And
don't worry about those bloody wars going on in Syria and what's left
of Iraq. Don't worry about the future of Afghanistan or the recent
terrorist takeover in Yemen, either."

Also, read this article by Terry Jones at Investor's Business Daily: As Jews Depart, European Civilization Dies. Europe is going to end up in the Dark Ages without the education, wisdom, and culture of the Jews, those "random folks".

There's something very wrong when the White House is willing to risk the security of our country and willing to personally attack the PM of Israel to keep him from speaking the truth about Iran and the danger to Israel. What's Obama so afraid of?

Also, please read Jonathan Tobin's article, "How Obama and his mouthpieces are encouraging anti-Jewish behavior." Here's an excerpt: "But now apparently this reluctance to admit that Islamists terrorists
are Muslims extends to refusing to say that Jewish victims were Jewish
or that the killers were trying to kill Jews. In doing so, the
administration seems to think that denying that it was an act of
anti-Semitism will absolve it of any responsibility to speak up against
Jew hatred or to acknowledge the way the virus of anti-Semitism has
spread among Muslims...But there is a cost attached to Obama's
refusal to speak about anti-Semitism and his firm orders to underlings
to copy his oblivious stand. By that I do not refer to a political cost
for Obama who will never again have to face an electorate, including an
American Jewish community that gave him the lion's share of their votes
despite his obvious hostility to Israel. Instead it is the Jews of Europe, who continue to be targeted because of
their faith amid what even Obama's State Department termed a 'rising
tide of anti-Semitism,' who will pay the price for his refusal to speak
the truth about violent Jew hatred."

No, it's not a black man disrespected by a foreign leader. But it is the Jewish people being disrespected by the President of the United States.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

I can't stand the thought that we have to put up with Obama for two more years. Every day comes another outrageous statement, another person to blame, another lie. Thomas Lifson calls him a "Jihad denier." Carol Brown lists some examples of violence against Jews and attacks Obama's lukewarm comment about Islamic terrorists randomly shooting a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris. Someone has to stand up for the Jews, and it's obvious it's not Obama, so let it be the rest of us.

(Sometimes I think that even if Muslim extremists attacked the White House itself, he would still find it impossible to name them or blame them.)

Why can't the State Department institute a travel ban for parts of the Middle East controlled by ISIS? We don't need any more tragic Kayla Muellers. You want to help people? Do so right here in America instead.

Monday, February 09, 2015

You have to see this very touching short video about college basketball player Austin Hatch, a survivor of not one but two fatal family planes crashes, who has somehow endured due to his own willpower and the love of his remaining family.

Obama is either completely oblivious, or a terrorist sympathizer. How else can you explain insulting remarks like this: "The news media absolutely overstates the risks of terrorism because
stories about things like climate change aren’t 'sexy' and don’t drive
ratings, President Obama said in an interview published Monday." Yes, that must be it.
The media has overstated this:

And this:

Let's by all means concentrate on the really important issues like "climate change" while constantly defending and excusing Muslim atrocities.

Saturday, February 07, 2015

Bruce Jenner. His mother claims she's more proud of his becoming a woman than of his Olympic gold. Does anyone actually believe that propaganda? In other news, he was in a fatal car accident today. Boy, when it rains, it pours! The Kardashians must be wishing he were still on their TV show just for the ratings boost.

Brian Williams. After news of his embarrassing lies came to light, he has decided to take a temporary leave of absence from NBC News. Usually when some celebrity is caught lying like this, they will conveniently blame it on drugs, alcohol, bipolar disorder, etc., so stay tuned.

Friday, February 06, 2015

The Watcher's Council Weasel of the Week is none other than Valerie Jarrett, Obama's co-president.

Visit the Israel Forever Foundation to read the 1/26/15 edition of Haveil Havalim,

If you haven't already seen Senator Tom Cotton in action, check out this video in which he says the following: "In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many
empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more
terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. As
far as I'm concerned every last one of them can rot in Hell, but as
long as they don't do that they can rot in Guantanamo Bay." Too bad Obama doesn't feel this way.

And read this post at Cold Fury about Obama's disgraceful Crusades speech and his declaration of war on our culture. You get the feeling that even if ISIS or Al Qaeda attacked the White House itself, he wouldn't be able to condemn the act without comparing it to something else.

Thursday, February 05, 2015

I like Katherine Timpf, who spotlights the idiocy of political correctness at National Review. Check out this ridiculousness: Army Deletes Tweet About ‘Chinks In Armor’ After People Cry Racism. I know I've seen that same complaint over the years. Anyone with any common sense and brains knows the meaning of "a chink in the armor", so I can't understand why the Army didn't simply ignore these fools and leave the tweet alone! Apologizing for things that aren't offensive, and caving in to ignorant whiners, just makes the apologists look very bad.

Here's Mark Steyn on Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast: "Oh, and, even by the standards of his usual rote cookie-cutter shoulder-to-shoulder shtick that follows every ISIS beheading of western captives, the President could barely conceal his boredom at having to discuss the immolation of Flt Lt al-Kasasbeh:

Aaand it, I think, will redouble [pause] the vigilance
aaand determination on the part of our global coalition to, uh, make
sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated. Ummmm. [Adopting a
whimsical look] It also just indicates the degree to which whatever
ideology they're operating off of, it's bankrupt. [Suppressing a smirk,
pivoting to a much more important subject.] We're here to talk about how
to make people healthier and make their lives better.

The lack of passion - the bloodlessness - of Obama's reaction to atrocity is always striking. He can't even be bothered pretending that he means it."

I applauded late last night when I heard the news that Jordan had executed by hanging two Islamic terrorists in retaliation for the horrific murder by fire of the pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. Jordan didn't talk about measured responses, or restraint, or a backlash -- they took decisive action. It made Obama look even worse.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

If King Abdullah wants to meet with people who can help him fight and destroy ISIS after the barbaric burning alive of their young pilot, he ought to talk to the Israelis, not to Obama! What possible help can you expect from a man who can't even use the word "Islamic terrorists", even now?

Monday, February 02, 2015

Imagine this! "Egypt’s leading business organization has praised Cairo’s plans to import natural gas from Israel, saying that doing so will 'yield many
benefits.' In another sign of the burgeoning security and commercial ties
between the two countries since Abdel Fattah el Sisi became president of
Egypt in 2014, the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) said that
that the deal with Israel would reduce import costs by relying on
pipelines already installed by East Mediterranean Gas (EMG), the
company that had supervised Egyptian gas exports to Israel before they
were halted following the 2011 uprising that led to a Muslim
Brotherhood government."

We now have a business partnership between the former enemies Egypt and Israel; and enemies between the former friends (the United States and Israel.) Plus you have a president who's fighting an oil pipeline that would "yield many benefits" to his own country. I think I need a scorecard.